Monday, May 13, 2013

UNREAL!! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU GET AN 80 YEAR OLD PATSY TO DO THE INVESTIGATION. THIS MAN IS ALMOST SENILE AND ILLOGICAL

Pickering: Why would we interview the person in charge when we could blame the flunkies, or something. WE ARE BEING SET UP...AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN... revolution..is the only way left!!

Want to know why State Department whistleblower Eric Nordstrom called
the Accountability Review Board a whitewash designed to protect the
highest ranks at Foggy Bottom? Take a listen to the man who ran the
ARB. CBS News’ Bob Schieffer
asked Thomas Pickering why the supposedly independent panel didn’t
bother to depose the Secretary of State who was personally briefed about
the attack on the Benghazi consulate by the second-ranking member of
her mission in Libya while it unfolded. Pickering replied that they’d
already decided who was responsible for the failures in Benghazi and
they saw no need to talk with the person in charge (via NRO):

“The decisions were made and reviewed at the level that
we fixed responsibility for failures of performance,” Pickering told
CBS’ Bob Schieffer, adding, ”I believe that that’s correct.” According
to Pickering, he and his colleagues had ample opportunity to interview
Secretary Clinton, but concluded that conducting an interview with her
was not necessary. “We knew where the responsibility rested,” he said.

Pickering isn’t too impressed with the whistleblowers, apparently:

Appearing Sunday on “Face the Nation,” Pickering defended
the report, which he co-authored with former Joint Chiefs of Staff
chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, against criticisms from three former and
current State Department officials who testified last week before the
House Oversight Committee. Greg Hicks – the No. 2 official in Libya at
the time of the strike that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three
other Americans – told the committee he believed the report “let people
off the hook.”
“They’ve tried to point a finger at people more senior than where we
found the decisions were made,” Pickering said, citing specifically
Clinton and Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy. Mark
Thompson, the deputy coordinator for operations in the State
Department’s counterterrorism bureau, told the House committee last week
that Clinton attempted to cut out the bureau from communications about
the attack.

Well, it’s difficult to find decision-making where one refuses to look. Recall what Nordstrom told Congress last week:

Nordstrom suggested the board’s report attempted to
protect higher-ranking officials, and specifically faulted it for not
looking at the key role played by Under Secretary for Management Patrick
Kennedy in failing to deliver the request for more security to Clinton.
He said a similar failure occurred in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, which killed 19 Americans.
“[The ARB] has decided to fix responsibility on the assistant
secretary level and below,” said Nordstrom. “And the message to my
colleagues is that if you’re above a certain level, no matter what your
decision is no one’s going to question it.
“I look back and I see the last time we had a major attack was East
Africa. Who was in that same position, when the unheeded messengers …
were raising those concerns? It just so happens it was the same person.
The under secretary for management was in that same role before.
“There’s something apparently wrong with the process of how those security recommendations are raised to the secretary.”

It’s also difficult to see the pattern when you’re deliberately fixed on the anything but the big picture.

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